On 2021-08-13 14:48, Richard Beels via Cygwin wrote:
At 8/13/2021 at 01:11, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Brian Inglis's
keyboard and said:
I suggested linux-manpages a while back, as it comes from the same
source as posix-manpages, and I install it myself, but did not get
voted to package, due to duplication with conflicting priorities and
no easy way to resolve under existing paths.
Huh... they go to /usr/local by default (easily changeable with `make
prefix=...`), which is pretty bare to begin with and with the fact that
they don't package hardly anything in man1, the conflict potential goes
down even further. Ah well, I guess I just keep making it manually from
a cloned repo.
That's the issue - Cygwin supports project man pages installed under FHS
locations like /usr/share/man/ where there would be "duplication", not
installing in non-standard locations under /usr/local/{share/,}man/ nor
under /usr/share/man/linux/ (man -m linux)!
I could probably look at bash-completion if I can get around to bash,
as I would worry about dependencies, fixes, and tweaks. There are big
challenges in bash and coreutils being years out of date as parts of
those need customized for Cygwin, and the customization patches are
likely to have issues, or even need redesign, if there have been major
changes.
bash-completion is a separate/disconnected project (now located at
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion), it doesn't align its releases
with bash itself. bash-completion 2.7-2.10 require bash 4.1+, 2.11
bumped that to 4.2. Since we're at 4.4, I don't think that's a
showstopper (BICBW).
BYCBC|BYCBR
And thanks again for the findutils update. 4.7 gave us comma-delimited
-type/-xtype specs, so a "( -type p -o -type s )" (shown non-quoted for
sanity's sake) becomes "-type p,s". :thumbsup:
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